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PATENTED JUNE 5, 1860,

W. H. NOYES. GAGE FOR FILLING BARRELS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. NOYES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HARVEY T.LITOI-IFIELD, OF SAME PLACE.

GAGE FOR FILLING BARRELS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,637, dated June 5, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. NoYEs, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful orImproved Gage or Instrument to be used for Fillin a Barrel andDetermining the Height of Liquor Therein; and I do hereby declare thesame to be fully described and represented in the followingspecification and the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 denotes afront elevation; Fig. 2, an underside view, and Fig. 3, a transversesection of it.

In such drawings, A, denotes a long tube open at each end and providedwith a channel or chamber, B, running longitudinally and arranged inother respects with regard to the tube, A, as shown in the drawings.This channel has no connection with the bore of the tube, A, but is openalong its entire front as shown at, a. \Vithin the said channel orchamber, there is a light float, 0, provided with a wire or stem, D,projecting longitudinally from it. On the said wire and so as to becapable of sliding and being adjusted thereon, is an indicator, E, whichmay be a piece of cork, or some other suitable substance.

In order to make use of the instrument or apparatus, it should beinserted in the bung hole of a barrel and held in a vertical positionwith the lower end resting on or just above the bottom of the interiorsur face of the barrel. Under these circumstances, if a liquid be pouredinto the tube it will run into the barrel and in proportion as it may hesuffered to run into the tube, the float, C, will rise in the chamber orgroove, B.

The indicator will rise with the float and reaching the level of theupper surface of the bung hole will show that the barrel has beensufficiently supplied with the liquid.

In the process of barreling spirits and other liquids, it is oftendiflicult to determine when the required quantity may be put into them.Much time, as well as liquor is often wasted in accomplishing the sameby means of the common funnel. The gage pipe, made as described,however, presents an easy and certain means of attaining the desiredresultsas the indicator of the float will exhibit when the proper amountof liquid may be within the barrel.

I claim- Combining with the filling tube, A, the groove or chamber, B,and its float, C, furnished with an adjustable slider or indicator asdescribed.

WILLIAM H. NOYES.

l/Vitnesses H. T. LITGHFIELD, F. P. HALE, Jr.

